We have already carried news about how the popular social networking site Twitter and Facebook were pulled down with a concerted DDoS attack and how Google, Facebook & Twitter were jointly investigating the reasons behind this DDoS Attack.

The 140 character microblogging platform Twitter is gaining popularity by each passing day. Geek or no-geek, everybody seems to be hooked up to Twitter, which looks like a good-for-no-use application when it was started.

There has always been a heated debate between the advocates of Free Antivirus Software and the promoters of Paid security software products. The first category of people try to criticize the security software companies like Symantec and McAfee for charging the computer users for something which is freely available from developers like Avira and AVG totally free of cost.

Desktop virus scanners are not the only software that will help you scan files that you download, there are several online virus engines that will let you upload a file and check if it contains any virus or spywares.

Gmail and many other email providers disallow users from sending email with .exe (executable files) and many other file types including .class (java compiled files) or any other compiled files, or any other type of files that can be remotely executed when someone downloads them.

Phishing attacks are not uncommon and many people are fooled to believe that someone is sending you a genuine email, though Gmailâ€™s spam filters are excellent, there may be times when you want to confirm if a email is genuine and not a phishing attempt.

One of our readers asked a interesting question today, the readers basically asked us that he signs up for a lot of newsletters, however whenever he opens up them in Gmail, the images are hidden and he has to click on a link to show the images.

Kaspersky Labs, creator of premier security applications have launched the new versions of their security suites. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 are out on the streets. The new updated suites carry a lot of updates and new features to keep you safe from the bad guys. Kaspersky’s software has a very good […]